The Supreme Court agreed Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children.
The conservative-led court is taking up the case amid actions by President Donald Trump targeting transgender people, including a ban on military service and an end to federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
The justices also have heard arguments in a Tennessee case over whether state bans on treating transgender minors violate the Constitution. But they have yet to issue a decision.
Colorado is among roughly half the states that prohibit the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.
I hold out little hope they’ll do the right thing but i have been surprised before so here’s hoping i guess
Gee … I wonder how Trumps Supreme Court will decide.
“Through counseling” my shapely ass.
Through literal torture.
The pdf available at the link is a doctoral dissertation from BYU by a man who I knew personally. He is fortunately quite dead now, but in life he helped spread the practice of applying punitive eletric shocks when the sensor on your pecker detects your interest in the pornography he also provides.
These fuckers are monsters.
We’re on our way to state-sanctioned physical and emotional torture. They won’t stop at trans people, or gay people, either. When one group loses their rights, everyone does.
How long until they pass a law forcing all LGBTQ+ people to suffer this torture? Are they going to force them to wear pink triangles again? Awful.
Trump boosted an article from the Washington times using that exact triangle yesterday…
I just ordered a handful of enameled pins that are just a pink triangle.
I’m going to start wearing one long before they mandate it. As a sorta standard-issue looking cis man, the world needs to know that, no, you cannot count on me to be nice about any of this shit.
Things are different this time. All us queer folk are well aware we are not alone and how hard we have to fight just to exist.
The world needs to know that we exist in large numbers and we are EVERYWHERE.
